Nossal Quotes & Sayings

You came suddenly shook me from my sleep and vanished.
In my heart you rose like the moon
but as I glanced at you, you disappeared.
Having had a glimpse of Your garden,
I have no more the patience to endure my existence ... — Rumi

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework. — Gustav Nossal

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years ... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic. — Gustav Nossal

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. — Billy Ray Cyrus

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. — Corrie Ten Boom

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material. — Haley Reinhart

Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?"
"Hazel, eat."
"But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich. — John Green

The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life. — Gustav Nossal

I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means. — Newt Gingrich

When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else. — Steve Carell

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom. — Immanuel Kant

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us. — Samuel Johnson

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Lessened theory of mind processing has also been linked to paranoia. After all, if one does not accurately model the mental state of another, one may treat it as hostile. — Daniel Nettle

The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan ... was ... age 70 ... — G. Edward Griffin

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. — Stanley Kunitz

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities. — Gustav Nossal

I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field. — Gustav Nossal